Sentence examples for competitive efforts from inspiring English sources

But, with active competition in prices precluded, competitive efforts may move in other directions, particularly toward product improvement and market segmentation.

This helps focus competitive efforts on actual rather than perceived competition.

Identifying more songs could help build listener loyalty, a crucial factor in radio stations' highly competitive efforts to drive ratings.

Third, while FHDS emphasize the corporate governance initiatives of passive investors as evidence of their competitive efforts, there is no reason to believe that such efforts are aimed at improving passive funds relative to active funds.

There was the Imperial in Delhi, where there was essentially a butler parked outside my room in case I needed anything and the staff positively threw themselves at me in competitive efforts to please.

In a public statement before the closed-door session with General Fan, Mr. Donilon repeated the Obama administration's desire for stronger strategic communications between the two militaries and for joint, rather than competitive, efforts to deal with regional problems in Asia.

Doug Most's meticulously researched history reveals that getting the subways built was more a collaborative than a competitive effort.

In this study, competitive effort, perceived difficulty and connected gameplay which are revealed to be core concepts of leaderboards, are manipulated to examine how leaderboards and competitive gameplay has to be designed to facilitate learning.

Although they opened the playoffs with a 3-0 victoverover the Senators, the Islanders were eliminated quickly, with only one competitive effort, a 3-2 overtime loss on Monday, in their last four games.

That would be a huge boon to corporations conducting business over the Internet, but its adoption has been slowed by Microsoft's aggressive competitive effort, a product called Active Directory.

Howe writes from "within the bourgeois middle-class culture," Sellers scoffed, while his own (presumably more Waldenesque) life had taught him that "relations of capitalist production wrench a commodified humanity to relentless competitive effort and poison the more affective and altruistic relations of social reproduction that outweigh material accumulation for most human beings".